[Gambas-user] Nice book of Gambas

[Ron Onstenk]

On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Kari Laine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as nobody has volunteered I try to write this proposal for publisher.
> 
> ----------------------
> Dear Sir,
> 
> You are the publisher for a book from John W. Rittinghouse titled as
> Beginner's Guide to Gambas.
> It is very fine book but parts of it are pretty dated. Gambas project is
> very active and it has users all over the world.
> 
> *Gambas* is a free development environment based on a *Basic* interpreter
> with object extensions, a bit like *Visual Basic™* (but it is *NOT* a
> clone !) More information at the http://gambas.sourceforge.net . Benoit
> Minisini is the starter of the project and main developer. <this needs more
> accuracy - has Benoit made almost all of it?>
> 
> Gambas is now at version 2.8.2 and version 3.x.x is under development. Book
> was based on version 1.x.x.
> 
> As is typical for open source projects documentation is always little
> behind. Developer's do what they like most - code!  And producing nice
> documentation is quite tuff and dull project. So it is not done. On the
> Gambas mailing list an idea was raised that maybe if we get permission from
> you we would turn this book as a baseline for wiki. Then Gambas users and
> developers all over the world make it current and better. It is hard to
> start wiki from zero so that is the reason for this request.
> 
> Only you know how good seller it is at the moment. But it's little old and
> possible customers noticing that might not like the situation. Also it is
> already available as free download in pdf-format.
> 
> What's your benefit
> 1. There would be your add on the wiki mentioning what book and publisher it
> is based on.
> 2. After the wiki has lived for something around 12 months someone from the
> Gambas community might turn contents of the wiki to a book you could
> publish. Many people like to buy the real book also independent that same
> information is in the net.
> 
> <here more good points for the publisher>
> 
> Yours Sincerely
> <whoever>

Looks not to bad but don't forget to add to write which book.

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> > Product Details
> >
> >   - ISBN: 0741429489
> >   - ISBN-13: 9780741429483
> >   - Format: Paperback, 364pp
> >   - Publisher: Buy Books on the Web.Com
> >   - Pub. Date: January 2006

And the who should get the permision is at admin at ...1965...
You are writing on behalf of the admin nom.

The email address is a bit stupid, thats why I did suggested he 
should do the request.